Capacity
A category including news related to increasing output and production of ports. Additional port equipment adding capacity; port expansion adding cargo capacity, shipping lines adding larger vessels and increased land traffic capacity by rail and road.
Trabzon Port Operation Co signs a contract related to fuel-oil storage facilities
Trabzon, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 –Â Trabzon Port Operation Co. has signed a lease contract related to fuel-oil storage facilities owned by...
Spain’s Adif approves details for a tender for Zaragoza-Sagunto rail line upgrade
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – The board of directors of Spanish railway operator Adif has approved at its last meeting a tender for...
Valencia port, Dutch consultancy MTBS finishing northern expansion project design
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – Valencia port authority and Dutch consultancy MTBS (Maritime & Transport Business Solutions BV) are...
Marsa Maroc started operating a new information system at Casablanca port
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – Marsa Maroc started operating a new information system at Casablanca port on July 2 which caused a...
Palermo port starts dismantling silos to open space for new ro-ro terminal
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – Palermo port has started works for the dismantling of the silos at the Piave pier. The port plans to build a...
Thessaloniki port railway connections to benefit from NSRF investment
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 –Â By 2022, Thessaloniki’s commercial harbour will be accessible via a modernized rail link to...
Bonanza port in Cadiz tenders construction work
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – The Ministry of Development and Housing has taken out a tender, worth €300,000, works to improve the...
New maritime terminal of the catamaran in the bay of Cádiz in El Puerto de Santa MarÃa
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – The new maritime terminal of the catamaran of the Bay of Cádiz in El Puerto de Santa MarÃa has put into...
Ericeira port dredging to be completed by end-July
Ericeira, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – The dredging of the Portuguese port of Ericeira, an investment of €532,098 ($622,875) to solve the...
Nantes Saint-Nazaire port increases road capacity
Nantes St-Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) July 14, 2018 – The new Boulevard des Apprentis was inaugurated on July 6, a key step in the redevelopment of...
Algeciras port set for new inland container handling facility
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) July 13, 2018 – The Ministry of Development and Housing, through Agencia Pública de Puertos de AndalucÃa (APPA...
France’s Eiffage presents offer to build bulk terminal at Alicante port
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) July 13, 2018 – Eiffage SA, a French civil engineering construction company, has presented an offer to build a new bulk...
AdSP Sardegna considers LNG facility at Porto Torres
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 13, 2018 – The Management Committee of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Di Sardegna (AdSP –...
Hannibal doubles connections to Switzerland with a new daily rail service from Melzo to Niederglatt
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) July 12, 2018 – Hannibal, Contship Italia Group’s multimodal transport operator, is started a second rail link to...
Italy’s CNA proposes usage of silo area at Ancona port for cargo terminal expansion
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) July 11, 2018 – Italian association of road transport operators CNA has proposed the allocation of the area of the silos of...
China Railway Group shows interest in rail line connecting Rijeka port to Central Europe
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) July 11, 2018 – Chinese company China Railway Group Limited is interested in the construction of a railway line connecting the...
Barge service between Marseille port and Lyons to increase frequency
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 10, 2018 – From October 1, 2018, the container barge service between Fos and Lyon will operate five days a week. The...
AdSP Bari and Interporto Bologna to sign rail expansion agreement
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) July 9, 2018 – Ugo Patroni Griffi, president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP –...
Grimaldi Lines increases Bari port capacity
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) July 9, 2018 – Two new vessels of the Grimaldi group have replaced Eurocargo-Patrasso and Eurocargo-Trieste, in service in the...
DHL Freight opens warehousing facility near Izmir, Turkey
Izmir, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 7, 2018 – DHL Freight, a leading provider of road freight services in Europe, has opened a new warehouse in the Manisa...